Improvement in paper shirt-collars



` UNITED STATES PATENT Ormea..

CHARLES K. BROWN, or TRoY, NEW YORK, l

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER SHIRT-COLLARS.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No'. 37,431, dated January 20, 1863.

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, CHARLES K. BROWN, of the city of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Shirt-Gollars, of which the following embraces a full and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in which the same letters indicate like parts in all the gures.

Paper shirt-collars have been heretofore manufactured by cutting them from a simple sheet of paper, and also by stamping or cutting them from a fabric composed of a layer of thin muslin pasted 0r cemented to and all over between two sheets of paper, the collar in each oase being of an even thickness and strength throughout, or no thicker nor stron ger at or around the button-holes than at every other part 5 but in buttoning on, wearing, and taking off shirtcollars the parts at or around the button-holes therein are generally subjected to much greater strain and Wear than the main portion or body of the collar, so that in using the said paper shirt-collar heretofore made of an even thickness and strength in all parts the parts at or around the button-holes were very liable to become Worn, torn, or broken out, so as to render the collar practically useless while the main portion or body ot' the collar Was still lit for wear. By myinvention I am enabled to produce paper shirtcollars which will have the button-holes as or more durable in use than the main portion or .body of the collar, and which, while appearing as nice and being as a whole no less durable, can be manufactured of like materials at a much cheaper rate than the aforesaid paper or paper and muslin shirt-collars heretofore made of a uniform thickness and strength in all parts, and my improved paper shirt-collar can be distinguished from all others by having the part or parts at or around the buttonholes therein made thicker and stronger than the main portion thereof by means of a piece or pieces of thin cloth or other strengthening fabric or material pasted, glued, or otherwise cemented in or to the layer or two or more united layers of paper constituting the main portion or body of the collar.

In the annexed drawings, each of the Figures l, 2, 3, 4, and 5 represents a shirt-collar with some part or parts of each broken away, made accordingto my invention of two layers, a b, ot paper pasted together and alone forming the main portion of the collar, and also pasted to a strengthening piece or pieces, c, of thin muslin or very tough paper, or other suitable thin material arranged between the said layers of paper around the button-holes d therein; and Fig. 6 shows a collar having strengthening-pieces o cemented at the parts around the button-holes d to the side ofthe layer a of paper which constitutes the body of the collar.

In Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 6 there is a separate strengthening-piece, o, at each button-hole d; and in Figs. 2 and 4 the pieces at the end button-holes extend across the collar, so as to strengthen the standing edges or corners e e ot' the collar in Fig..2, and so as to make the ends of the collar in Fig. 4 stronger at the places f f Where the collar is turned over. In Figs. 3 and 5 one longitudinal strip, o, in each case strengthens all the button-holes d and also stiffens the neck-band of the collar.

My said improved paper shirt-collars may be manufactured by stamping or cutting them from a fabric composed of a sheet, g, or sheets g h, Figs. 9, l0, and l1, of paper and strengthening-strips t' or j or pieces It of very thin muslin or other suitable strengthening material united together by means of any suitable paste, sizing, or cement, with the said strengthening pieces or strips arranged so as to occupy the places l for the button-holes, and surround or strengthen the latter When the collars are cut or stamped from the said fabric, as indicated by the dotted lines m. Thus collars like the one shown in Fig. I may be cut out of the fabric represented in Fig. 9. Fig. 10 represents a fabric from which collars like that shown in Fig. 2 may be cut; and Fig. ll shows a fabric suitable for having collars like the one shown in Fig. 5 stamped out; but in the practice of my invention the paper shirt-collars may be variously produced of any desired form, and With the stren gthenin g piece or pieces c at or around the button-holes d of any suitable shape.

Now, I do not claim as new a shirt-collar n composed of paper alone or of paper and cloth pasted or cemented together, such shirt-col-A 1ers having been heretofore made of ain even 1in or other suitable strengthening material strength and thickness throughout the Whole pasted or otherwise cemented in or to the collar. layer or united layers of paper constituting,`

What I claim as new and of my invention, the main portion or body of the collar, suband desire to secure by Letters Patent, isstantially as herein described.

A paper shirt-collar having1 the parts at or CHARLES K. BROWN. around thebutton-holes d therein made thicker Witnesses and stronger than the main portion thereof, CHARLES W. ROOT7 by means of a piece or pieces, o, of thin mus- AUSTIN F. PARK.

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